Qualified Nominators for the Nobel Peace Prize

Members of national assemblies and national governments (cabinet members/ministers) of sovereign states as well as current heads of states

2.

Members of The International Court of Justice in The Hague and The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague

3.

Members of Institut de DroitInternational

4.

University professors, professors emeriti and associate professors of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion; university rectors and university directors (or their equivalents); directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes

5.

Persons who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

6.

Members of the main board of directors or its equivalent for organizations that have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

7.

Current and former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (proposals by current members of the Committee to be submitted no later than at the first meeting of the Committee after 1 February)

8.

Former advisers to the Norwegian Nobel Committee

Category 1 has a very large membership. National assemblies would include parliaments, congresses and other variants of the legislative branches of national governments. The addition of cabinet members and ministers is newly articulated detail.

Category 4 has an even larger membership. Formerly reading ‘professors’, the Nobel Committee has now indicated that Associate Professors and Emeritus Professors are qualified to nominate. The title of ‘rector’ has been expanded to include “university directors (or their equivalents),” so that chancellors and presidents are now more clearly defined as qualified to nominate. Professors of five different disciplines are included as Qualified Nominators: